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Just got this in an email from tfl - bit weird as I don't live near Forest Hill but thought it might help those of you that do...


I am writing to let you know about travel disruption in the Forest Hill area, while Thames Water carries out emergency repairs on a collapsed sewer. This will start from 21:00 tonight and is expected to last several days.


The A205 London Road will be restricted to one lane in both directions at the junction with Devonshire Road, outside Forest Hill station. There will be no right turn from the A205 London Road into Dartmouth Road. Road users are advised to avoid the area.


Bus routes 176 and 197 will be diverted via Sydenham Hill and Kirkdale and will not serve London Road, Forest Hill station and Dartmouth Road. Customers are advised to use nearby stops in Lordship Lane or Kirkdale.


To check for future updates on the roadworks, please visit tfl.gov.uk

This will affect those of us who commute from Forest Hill station who live at the Grove end of LL. This I think has been the third time Forest Hill has been severely affected by work by Thames Water, although I give them credit this time round for being able to keep traffic flowing, yet once again, I'll have to use Sydenham and bus it back from Kirkdale from tomorrow.

Suspect they send it out to those who live nearby or those who use their Oyster cards on bus routes likely to be affected.


It was only two years ago that the road was entirely closed for several weeks while they worked on that stretch of road. I wonder if this is an entirely new instance or a poor repair job. Suspect the traffic will be nasty from the Plough onwards at peak times until it's fixed.

Applespider Wrote:

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> Suspect they send it out to those who live nearby

> or those who use their Oyster cards on bus routes

> likely to be affected.

>

> It was only two years ago that the road was

> entirely closed for several weeks while they

> worked on that stretch of road. I wonder if this

> is an entirely new instance or a poor repair job.

> Suspect the traffic will be nasty from the Plough

> onwards at peak times until it's fixed.


It's a new leak not connected to the collapsed sewer which was on London Road outside Sainsburys, however I've noticed water trickling down from the top of Devonshire Road by WHSmith for months now, yet nothing has been done about it until now.


As for the email notification, I believe this is taken from Oyster users who use the rail station or the local routes which pass Forest Hill station, so if you use the 176, 185 or 197 but go in the other direction, you'll still get an email if a registered user.


TfL have given me notifications in the past about the ELL opening from Forest Hill, the South London line extension from Peckham Rye & Denmark Hill and changes to the 12 bus when it converted back to double decker.

As an aside, alternatives to Forest Hill station.


P4. From Lordship Lane Estate (in Dulwich Common) or Lordship Lane/Wood Vale to Honor Oak Park station. Buses run every 12 minutes and takes approx 10 mins, but is prone to delays on a normal day.


176/197 from Lordship Lane to Sydenham station. As these routes are diverted via Sydenham Hill and Kirkdale, this will see journeys take between 5-10 mins from Dulwich library instead of the usual 15/20. There is a side entrance to Platform 1 which is easy to reach from Cobbs Corner by taking the first left at the roundabout then right.

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